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It gets worse. Depending on which medievalist you ask, "feudalism" (as described in typical fashion by the linked blog post) may not have existed anywhere. And even among those who are willing to cop to, say, the Norman French running things in roughly this fashion for a few generations, it's seen as a kind of outdated and not particularly useful term/concept.
This has more to due with the structure of a academia than the likelihood we now have a better take on the period’s social structure than a century ago. To make a name in the field, you refute, nuance, or complicate previous arguments. Marc Bloch’s work is still pretty solid. However, a generation of medievalists have needed to justify their existence since his time by bringing new ideas to the table - publish or perish. Nobody is going to read the twelfth book about how Bloch was correct.